Ramzi Abed is an award-winning cult and arthouse film and video director, cinematographer and visual artist primarily based in Pasadena, California.
In 1995, Ramzi received two BA degrees at Pitzer College in Claremont, California. One in English / Creative Writing and one in Film / Video Production.
His landmark microbudget cult film, The Devil's Muse (starring Kristen Kerr, Gidget Gein, Cinque Lee, Julie Strain, Dame Darcy, Caveh Zahedi and Robert Williams), streamed on Netflix for nearly two years and was distributed by Cinetic Rights Management, Gunpowder and Sky, and Halo 8 Entertainment respectively in digital and home video formats. The film streamed on Netflix for well over a year, and was also available on multiple digital movie platforms (and is now streaming at Tubi, Bloodstream, TromaNow and FlixHouse, along with his previously unreleased lo-fi found footage video thriller, Clay Fields, also at TromaNow and Bloodstream, while his psychedelic existential odyssey, In A Spiral State is streaming at Tubi, Filmzie, FlixHouse and Bloodstream). Meanwhile, his experimental reality-based thriller, Telephone World (starring Elissa Dowling), was released on home video by Cinema Epoch and is currently streaming on Cineverse, TromaNow and Tubi.
Ramzi recently directed the music video for "A Free Society", the title song from the 2023 debut album by Night Crickets, a jazzy post-punk supergroup comprised of David J Haskins (of Bauhaus, Love and Rockets) and Victor De Lorenzo (of Violent Femmes) and renowned musician, Darwin Meiners. He also directed the music video for Night Crickets' new song, "Don't Be Afraid" from their recent 2025 album, "How It Ends".
Abed's film work has been distributed and also screened at numerous film festivals over the years. His renowned and rare 2001 16mm short film, The Tunnel, was edited by renowned filmmaker, David Lowery (A Ghost Story, The Green Knight), and starred co-writer Casey Wickson, Lloyd Kaufman (The Toxic Avenger), and Mark Borchardt (American Movie, Coven). The Super 16mm film went on to screen at many festivals all over the world.
Ramzi currently works as the main Rental Manager at Evidence Cameras, a motion picture camera rental house in Los Angeles. He took a nearly ten year hiatus from making and finishing new films, and is now very hard at work making new movies and completing past projects as he splits some of his time between Pasadena, California and Falls Church, Virginia. Abed also avidly draws, paints, takes photos, reads, writes and makes music in his spare time whenever possible.
Abed's latest feature films include First Person Savior, Let Love In and I Am An Alien. First Person Savior stars John Karyus (Foxfur, V/H/S/2, A Blind Bargain), James Duval (Nowhere, Donnie Darko, Sushi Girl), Dawn Wirth (photographer of the 1970s LA punk rock scene), and is about and reflecting upon gun violence and video games in present-day America. Let Love In, in turn, stars Victoria De Mare (The Beast Inside, Killjoy 3-5, The Rideshare Killer) and Ramzi Abed (Samurai Cop 2), and is about the search for love and personal peace against the backdrop of the world of adult films. I Am An Alien is a fantastical documentary inspired by My Dinner With Andre and political debate shows, against the backdrop of extraterrestrial intelligence, starring microbudget and indie movie icons, Dennis Woodruff (Tom Green Show) and Mark Borchardt (American Movie). Dennis Woodruff was a true Hollywood icon, and passed away in October 2024). This movie is dedicated to him. All three aforementioned films are now finished, and in the final stages of their award-winning festival circuit runs.
"The Devil's Muse", "In A Spiral State", "Telephone World", "First Person Savior" and "I Am An Alien" are now all available on various streaming platforms including Tubi, Bloodstream, Fawesome, Hoopla, YouTube, Filmzie, FlixHouse, TromaNow, Xumo and GooglePlay.
Abed also launched a YouTube channel in late 2026.
